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Tom Durkin (artist)
Thomas Coleman Durkin (1853 – 29 April 1902) was an Australian caricaturist and cartoonist who contributed to various Melbourne newspapers in the late 19th-century. Durkin was a son of Michael Durkin, born at sea off the coast of Africa (Lat. 29° S , Long. 3° W) aboard the SS ''West Wind'', departed New York 6 September 1852; after many delays arrived at Melbourne on 28 April 1853; eight months port-to-port. He was contributing to '' The Bulletin'' by 1889, and in 1893 he succeeded George Rossi Ashton as ''The Bulletins Melbourne cartoonist. He was staff artist for Edward Dyson's ''Bull Ant'' newspaper, which failed after being successfully sued by Constable Cornelius Crowe, who was involved in the death in custody of one Alfred Gauge, and was criticised for his behavior in an editorial illustrated by a cartoon of a policeman cheerfully bludgeoning the head of a helpless drunk. He gave gave drawing lessons to Edward Dyson's brothers Ambrose Dyson and Will Dyson. Hicaricat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a metropolitan area known as Greater Melbourne, comprising an urban agglomeration of 31 local municipalities, although the name is also used specifically for the local municipality of City of Melbourne based around its central business area. The metropolis occupies much of the northern and eastern coastlines of Port Phillip Bay and spreads into the Mornington Peninsula, part of West Gippsland, as well as the hinterlands towards the Yarra Valley, the Dandenong and Macedon Ranges. It has a population over 5 million (19% of the population of Australia, as per 2021 census), mostly residing to the east side of the city centre, and its inhabitants are commonly referred to as "Melburnians". The area of Melbourne has been home to Aboriginal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Weekly Times
The Herald and Weekly Times Pty Ltd (HWT) is a newspaper publishing company based in Melbourne, Australia. It is owned and operated by News Pty Ltd, which as News Ltd, purchased the HWT in 1987. Newspapers The HWT's newspaper interests date back to 1840 and the launch of ''The Port Phillip Herald''. The company publishes the morning daily tabloid '' Herald Sun'', which was created in 1990 from a merger of the company's morning tabloid paper, ''The Sun News-Pictorial'', with its afternoon broadsheet paper, '' The Herald''. ''The Herald'' had a 150-year history, and ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' a 68-year history, in Melbourne. The HWT had bought ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' in 1925. The HWT also publishes ''The Weekly Times'', aimed at farmers and rural business. The HWT bought a controlling stake in '' The Advertiser'' of Adelaide in 1929. From 1929 until 1987, HWT owned and operated Melbourne radio station 3DB. In 1929, 3DB along with 3UZ participated in experimental televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Cartoonists
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) * * * Austrian (other) Austrian may refer to: * Austrians, someone from Austria or of Austrian descent ** Someone who is considered an Austrian citizen, see Austrian nationality law * Austrian German dialect * Someth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 Deaths
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1853 Births
Events January–March * January 6 – Florida Governor Thomas Brown signs legislation that provides public support for the new East Florida Seminary, leading to the establishment of the University of Florida. * January 8 – Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan is ordered to assist the governor of Hunan in organising a militia force to search for local bandits. * January 12 – Taiping Rebellion: The Taiping army occupies Wuchang. * January 19 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Il Trovatore'' premieres in performance at Teatro Apollo in Rome. * February 10 – Taiping Rebellion: Taiping forces assemble at Hanyang, Hankou, and Wuchang, for the march on Nanjing. * February 12 – The city of Puerto Montt is founded in the Reloncaví Sound, Chile. * February 22 – Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary. * March – The clothing company Levi Strauss & Co. is founded in the United States. * March 4 – Inauguration of Franklin Pierce as 14th President of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Argus (Melbourne)
''The Argus'' was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left-leaning approach from 1949. ''The Argus''s main competitor was David Syme's more liberal-minded newspaper, ''The Age''. History The newspaper was originally owned by William Kerr, who was also Melbourne's town clerk from 1851–1856 and had been a journalist at the ''Sydney Gazette'' before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Pascoe Fawkner's newspaper, the '' Port Phillip Patriot''. The first edition was published on 2 June 1846. The paper soon became known for its scurrilous abuse and sarcasm, and by 1853, after he had lost a series of libel lawsuits, Kerr was forced to sell the paper's ownership to avoid financial ruin. The paper was then published by Edward Wilson. By 1855, it had a daily c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malvern, Victoria
Malvern () is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 8 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Malvern recorded a population of 9,929 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. History The area of Malvern was first settled by Europeans in 1835. John Gardiner (Australia), John Gardiner was one of its first European settlers. A small hamlet known as "Gardiners Creek" (1851 Melbourne Postal Directory) was settled, but it diminished with the gold rush. The Gardiners Creek, nearby creek was also named Gardiners Creek. Gardiners Creek Road (now Burwood Highway, Toorak Road) ran from South Yarra, east to the junction of Gardiners Creek and onto the Gardiner Homestead, which is now the site of Scotch College, Melbourne, Scotch College. In the 1860s the Road districts of Victoria (Australia), Gardiners Creek Roads Boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
The National Portrait Gallery (NGPA) in Canberra is a public art gallery containing portraits of prominent Australians. It was established in 1998 and moved to its present building on King Edward Terrace in December 2008. History In the early 1900s, the painter Tom Roberts was the first to propose that Australia should have a national portrait gallery, but it was not until the 1990s that the possibility began to take shape. The 1992 exhibition ''Uncommon Australians'' – developed by the gallery's founding patrons, Gordon and Marilyn Darling – was shown in Canberra and toured to four state galleries, igniting the idea of a national portrait gallery. In 1994, under the management of the National Library of Australia, the gallery's first exhibition was launched in Old Parliament House. It was a further four years before the appointment of Andrew Sayers as inaugural Director signalled the establishment of the National Portrait Gallery as an institution in its own right, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Richard Harwood
Henry Richard Harwood (c. 1831 – 16 April 1898) was an Australian actor and theatre manager. History Harwood was born in London. His father, name not found (died c. 19 February 1872), was a builder and contractor, which was Harwood's profession when he emigrated to Victoria, Australia in 1852. In 1855, while on a visit to Sydney, he made his first appearance on the stage as Flavius Corunna in Payne's ''Brutus'', being staged by G. V. Brooke at the Victoria Theatre. He took on the job of prompter with the company, thereby gaining practical knowledge of stage management. He returned to Victoria, and joined a company at Ballarat, playing comic characters, such as Blueskin in ''Jack Shepherd''. He was an expert horseman, and appeared in such equestrian plays as ''Mazeppa'', ''Dick Turpin'', and ''Timor the Tartar'' at Geelong. He rejoined Brooke, playing Shakespeare parts: playing Macduff, Richmond, Brabantio, Dogberry, Holofernes, Enobarbus, and Antonio; Leonata in ''Much A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singleton Argus
''The Singleton Argus'', also published as ''The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate'', is a semiweekly English language newspaper published in Singleton, New South Wales, Australia since 1874. History ''The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate'' began as a weekly newspaper and was first published on 15 July 1874 by John Willis. In September 1874 it was purchased by Thomas Boyce and Henry Pinchin. The title was shortened to ''The Singleton Argus'' on 14 July 1880. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia. See also * List of newspapers in Australia This is a list of newspapers in Australia. For other older newspapers, see list of defunct newspapers of Australia. National In 1950, the number of national daily newspapers in Australia was 54 and it increased to 65 in 1965. Daily newspape ... References External links The Singleton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Will Dyson
William Henry Dyson (3 September 1880 – 21 January 1938) was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist. In 1931 he was regarded as "one of the world's foremost black and white artists", and in 1980, "Australia's greatest cartoonist". Personal life Will Dyson was part of a literary family, with journalist and writer brother Edward 'Ted' Dyson (1865–1931), illustrator brother Ambrose Dyson (1876–1913), and three sisters also of artistic praise. His parents George and Jane came from England. Dyson was a boxer of some note in the 1900s. Artist Norman Lindsay was part of his social and professional circle and in 1909, Dyson, Lindsay, and Lindsay's illustrator sister Ruby, moved to London. In 1910 he married Ruby. (Will's sister Jean later married Norman and Ruby's brother Lionel.) She died as a result of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1919. He returned to Australia in 1925, but for the 'mediocrity' of Melbourne, he then went to New York, and then returned Lond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambrose Dyson
Ambrose Dyson (1876 – 4 June 1913), often known as Amb Dyson was an Australian illustrator and political cartoonist, born at Alfredton, near Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, the son of George Dyson, then a hawker and later a mining engineer, and his wife Jane, ''née'' Mayall. He was educated at state schools at Ballarat and South Melbourne. He was the older brother of the brilliant Will Dyson and the writer Edward Dyson. He may have studied at the Melbourne National Gallery Art School and certainly took private lessons with Tom Durkin, but was mostly self-taught. He was a frequent contributor to '' The Bulletin'' and ''Melbourne Punch'', but his first regular position was with the Adelaide ''Critic'' from 1899 to 1903, then with ''The Bulletin''.Lindesay, Vane ''The Inked-in Image'' Hutchinson (Australia) 1979 He worked as cartoonist for the Melbourne ''Table Talk'' from 1907 to 1910, while contributing to C. J. Dennis's ''Gadfly'' followed by the Sydney-based ''Comic Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
